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Re: Program calling unwanted functions

From John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Program calling unwanted functions
Date 2014-12-22 20:09 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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In <b37a93ec-c90b-4375-a264-e96c3128871b@googlegroups.com> Luke Tomaneng <luketomaneng@gmail.com> writes:

> The "cameraman" function restarts itself when it ends, and the "kid"
> function calls "instructions()." Does anyone know why?

The cameraman function restarts itself because ... that's what you told it
to do.  As far as I can see, every possible logic branch ends up with a
call to cameraman().

The kid function doesn't call instructions, but the last line of your
script does call it, unconditionally.

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John Gordon         Imagine what it must be like for a real medical doctor to
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Program calling unwanted functions Luke Tomaneng <luketomaneng@gmail.com> - 2014-12-22 11:55 -0800
  Re: Program calling unwanted functions John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-12-22 20:09 +0000
  Re: Program calling unwanted functions Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-12-22 15:35 -0500
  Re: Program calling unwanted functions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-12-22 16:48 -0700
  Re: Program calling unwanted functions Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-12-22 18:57 -0500
    Re: Program calling unwanted functions sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2014-12-22 16:04 -0800
      Re: Program calling unwanted functions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-12-22 17:12 -0700
      Re: Program calling unwanted functions Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-12-22 19:12 -0500

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